European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday. June 4,19b8 rite of Spring App Talo Little boys chasing Little frogs it s a soul look at tiny Frog he ought in a springtime ritual. Here 7-year-old a secret Frog place near his Home in than Frece takes an up close and per Neff Burgh Maine. Catalon system for military buying criticized by Gao Washington a the Federal government s cataloguing system tails to adequately identify military Supply items to avoid the Purchase of duplicate pans according to a congressional report re leased fonday. The general accounting office report said the Federal Catalon system does not meet the congressional requirement that every catalogued item be identified in a Way thai distinguishes it from other parts. The extent of duplication and other logistics problems caused by inadequate item identification or the unnecessary costs incurred As a result Are largely in  the Gao concluded. However these problems May be serous and  the Federal Catalon so slim was established in 1952 to provide a uniform cataloguing system among the military services. By identifying and differentiating Supply items cataloguing enables the government to know what it has in Stock so it does not buy items already in its inventory. Millions of tax dollars Are being wasted because the defense department docs not properly identify and Catalon the items in its Supply system said sen. John Glenn a Ohio who released the study. The confusion and waste continue while the need for a solution remains said Ciena who is chairman of the sen ate governmental affairs committee. Federal policy requires that Supply items be assigned Only one name be de scribed completely and accurately and be catalogued under a single Stock num Ber. But the Gao said hat As of the end of 1986, 30 percent of All catalogued items did not have approved names us 29 percent were described just wed. Enough to meet minimum requirements. Thousands of items were min Classi fied or assigned duplicate number in the Federal Catalon the Gao added defense department officials Laid the use of approved item names has received greater emphasis in the past two years. The need to improve item identifications and reduce duplicate items in the Federal Catalon system Are Central to Many of the ongoing efforts in the Cata Loging Community Jack Karlzen Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for systems said in a letter to the Gao. On wednesday Glenn released another Gao study that said poor inventory control in the air Force was causing excessive Supply purchases. Glenn said the problem was costing billions of tax Dol Lars. Tacoma group s hiring of Man Sparks Owca juror Tacoma. Wash. A a decision by the Owca s Tacoma chapter to hire a male executive director in Defiance of National organization rules has set off debate Over the future of the 133-year old organization. Lost month Alan Tiger 36, of Eugene Ore was hired As executive director. By definition an executive director must be a full voting member of the Owca hut the organization s Constitution allows men Only As associate non voting Mem Bers. Tiger s hiring could result in the National organization terminating its affiliation with the Tacoma chapter. And the decision will set a precedent for the Owca said Marilynne Keyser a Owca National Board member. On thursday she and National executive director Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Fly to Tacoma to meet with chapter Lead ers to discuss the Issue. Tiger said the Tacoma Owca will re main committed to the battered women s shelter the Job training programs and the other services aimed primarily at women. However some members say accept ing men As full members May shift the Owca s focus away from women s con Cerns. While the Myca focuses on health and fitness and allows both sexes to join the Owca plays a social service and political role Keyser said. She said the Tacoma s action is sure to be a subject of debate at the National Owca convention later this month in Chicago. Members say Many of the 400 local chapters arc under pressure to allow men to join partly because of the recent inclusion of women in formerly All male clubs such As rotary. To me it s a natural evolution. It s come to a Point in the 1980s that we have to Lay aside this us against them thing and Start to work together said Gay Littleton executive director of the Odin Utah Owca. A few months ago the Ogden chapter became the first in the country to be Dis Ali Liale from the National group be cause it allowed men to join. Smoking ban backfires Owensboro by. A at least two of the five City directors in this tobacco Market Center Are reconsidering their support of a smoking ban Fol lowing objections from a local tobacco company. A policy Banning smoking in the main lobby of City Hall City commission Chambers the City bus station and a handful of other places look effect this past week Over protests from Pinkerton tobacco co., Daviss county s largest Industrial employer. Owensboro is a major tobacco sales Center for Western Kentucky Hurley. The Daviss county farm Bureau estimates that area tobacco sales topped 125 million last year. Pinkerton in a letter dated May 20, notified mayor David Adkisson that it will reconsider plans to expand in the county because of the ban. If As it appears your recent enactment of a ban on our products is indicative of this Community s attitude toward the tobacco Industry our company and our products then the time has come for us to begin rethinking our plans for the future Luther Pittman executive vice president of Pinkerton wrote. Pinkerton which employs 504 people at its Daviess county Plant is the nation s leading manufacturer of Loose Leaf and plug chewing tobaccos Pittman said. The company also makes smoking tobacco products. Pittman said his letter docs not mean the company is planning to pull out of Daviss county. But Pinkerton is in the process of acquiring smoking tobacco brands from the american Tobac co company in Richmond va., he said and had planned to move manufacturing and distribution operations linked to such an acquisition to Owensboro. Adkisson said he did not consider Pitman s let Ter a threat by the company to leave town. The smoking ban passed unanimously and Adkisson said he still supports in. But commissioner Jack Ross who voted with the three other commissioners and the mayor to approve the policy thursday said the Board Over reacted. And commissioner Waymond Morris principal of Daviss county High school said he probably will vote to rescind the policy. He said the policy is doing something we did t intend to do namely offending tobacco interests. Another commissioner Alan Braden said he is still weighing the policy s benefits against its effects on tobacco interests. Adkisson said that in the past Pinkerton has produced mostly smokeless tobacco and be did t think about the company being adversely affected. Callous and leaves mall holding bag Jersey City no a an advertise ment for a Swank shopping mall that used the term bag a by to describe a Well dressed shop per has been pulled after City officials called in offensive. Officials at Newport Centre a new mall on the Jersey City waterfront across from manhat Tan apologized and withdrew the newspaper spots. The ads asked what do you Call a typical shopper at Newport Centre bag lady is the answer next to a picture of a woman dressed to the nines and holding a Newport Centre shopping bag. Barbara Willis a spokeswoman for Newport said the and Campaign was developed around the theme of shopping bags and the reference to bag lady was just one of those things that got by  she said the shopping Center had received Sev eral Telephone Calls complaining the ads Wen insensitive to homeless people who must Cany around their belongings in shopping bags